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Campaigners for victims of the contaminated blood scandal are “angry, annoyed and frustrated” over comments by former Prime Minister Sir John Major, who said those affected were “unbelievably unlucky”.
To the gasp of those in attendance at the contaminated blood test in London, Major suggested that no amount of money could have offered any real compensation for what happened.
The infection of up to 30,000 people with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS. Thousands died after contaminated blood products were imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s, often from prisoners, workers, and drug addicts who were paid to give their blood.
Major described the scandal’s effects on the victims as “horror”. He said: “There is no amount of compensation you can give that can actually compensate for what happened to them. What had happened to them was unbelievably bad luck – terrible – and it wasn’t something anyone was unsympathetic to.”
Victims have long believed the scale of the contamination scandal had been covered up. In an example of evidence suggesting that the government was aware of the risks, a 1983 letter to the Department of Health from the Surveillance Center for Communicable Diseases in London called for the discontinuation of blood products from the US because of links to HIV that needed to be properly researched. become.
Former Labor Secretary of State Andy Burnham described the scandal as a “criminal cover-up”.
Jason Evans, the founder of the Factor 8 campaign group, which advocates for the victims of the scandal and their families, said: “I don’t think John Major has been particularly clingy in his evidence and I suspect families will have many more questions.
“His comments about bad luck contradict all of the evidence – expert evidence – we have heard. I think it just shows how uneducated he is in this field. There are people in the room, families and victims, who are very angry, annoyed and frustrated with what has been said.”
Denise Turton, whose 10-year-old son died after contracting HIV from contaminated blood products, said: “I’m just so angry. Saying it’s bad luck is terrible to hear, especially after what my son has been through. He lost his life, like many others, and all he says is bad luck.
“I can’t say what I really want to say. The only bad thing is that the government didn’t listen. They were told about the products and didn’t listen – that’s bad luck, not what happened to my son and so many others.”
Clive Smith, the president of the Haemophilia Society, said: “The current evidence from Sir John Major that the suffering and death of over 3,000 people with haemophilia and other bleeding disorders as a result of contaminated NHS treatment is ‘bad luck’ is insulting and complacent… His evidence is a reminder that successive governments over the past 30 years have refused to accept responsibility for this treatment disaster — and the denial continues.”
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